In many ways like this, the Aryan and the Dravidian united to form the Hindu.
Tanjore and Madura are the seats of the Dravidian temples which we visited.
It has been usual to set these down as earlier than Dravidian.
They are undoubtedly a mixed Dravidian race, with much Aryan blood.
It proceeded from a hideous worship of monstrous Dravidian divinities.
Dravidian, generally regarded as representing the indigenous element.
The origin of caste is to be found in the superiority of the Aryan conqueror to the Dravidian aborigines.
In absorbing the Dravidian tribes, Brahmanism appropriated the totemistic cult and incorporated it into the caste system.
The remnants of the first invasion are seen in the Dravidian or Tamil tribes, and those of the second in the Jhats.
The grammar of the South of India is exclusively Dravidian, and bears no trace of ever having been anything else.
1856, "pertaining to the race in southern India or the languages spoken by them," from Sanskrit Dravidah, name of a region in southern India, + -ian.
